Representatives from Girard Gibbs LLP, the firm previously handling one of the LG bootloop lawsuits, contacted us late yesterday with news about the case. On June 29th the court gave an order granting the defendant's motion to compel arbitration, dismissing the lawsuit. That means that right now the suit has been forced into arbitration.

I know it's tough to follow, but so far there have been at least two of these lawsuits against LG. One we previously covered was brought by the firm Chimicles & Tikellis LLP, and it was dropped last month. This suit is being handled by a different firm and covers a wider number of LG devices which are known to suffer the so-called "bootloop" defect.

A representative for Girard Gibbs LLP — the plaintiffs' attorneys — provided the following statement:

While we disagree with the Court’s finding that our clients had adequate notice of the arbitration clause, this is not the end of the road for these Plaintiffs. We have been engaged by a substantial number of consumers who bought these defective LG phones. Our clients suffered real injuries, for which we intend to seek relief in arbitration. We are also evaluating next steps, including the possibility of seeking relief from the Court’s judgment.

This is a pretty sad piece of news, as arbitration isn't likely to result in as much (if any) relief or compensation for the plaintiffs, compared to the might of a class-action. Unfortunately, the US Supreme Court has ruled severaltimes that class action waivers for enforced arbitration are legal. Those rulings were a terrible blow for consumer rights, and it's a sad but perhaps understandable turn of events that the judge would stick to those rulings.

The end result of all this is that the current case is dismissed, but without prejudice. It isn't over, there's still the arbitration to consider. But it also means that it is possible that the plaintiffs and their attorneys could try things in court again at a later time. So, we might see this lawsuit back in the future. If you had one of the affected phones — the suit has included the LG G4, V10, V20, Nexus 5X, and G5 — this isn't great news, but all hope might not be lost.

The attorneys involved would like our readers to know that if you have been affected by a bootloop with one of the above LG phones, you can contact them here if you might be interested in joining the suit.

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Then again though half of the ranks are reserved for the top 20% of the players which makes no sense -- I'm better than 75% of the players but I'm only halfway through the ranks? Bullshit much?

DanSan

"Our clients suffered real injuries, for which we intend to seek relief in arbitration."

Wait. Real injuries from bootlooping phones? Right...

Slavik Fursov

Real injuries - yes, real horror, when understood, that I might have to spend few days without Facebook and Instagram. For real - how many days can you survive without them? You can even die - here you go: death or injury...
;-)

You've never experience a boot looping phone, especially when you really needed a phone (pregnant wife, broken down car). At the very least, you're certain to feel like throwing the small brick across the room.

Semianonymous

Uh, what if you need to use your phone for an emergency? What if you rely on it for work? Wha if you, like in my case, miss the phone call that your father is hours from death and if you want to see him, you need to do so right the fuck now and your piece of shit LG G2X won't function properly or connect to the network and when you do finally get the message, it repeatedly overheats and reboots while you're driving to the hospital 45 miles away because navigation is just too much of a challenge for the device? Injury doesn't just mean physical injury, from a legal standpoint.

Probably the shittiest attitude imaginable to a manufacturer failing their consumers.

JPLoureiro

Must be nice living in that ivory tower of yours.

Bill Blandford

Good. Now the lawyers get nothing. Like the phone owners were ever gonna get fair compensation anyway.

froader

My Nexus purchased just over a year ago had boot loops after OTAs twice with the last end of May. A week ago it happened a third time and flashing factory image didn't help this time. Luckily Google where I purchased through Fi created a replacement order and a brand new MFG date of early 2017 showed up which was good to see as they didn't have any info on a resolution to these problems other than it was being investigated.
All kinds of problems disappeared with the new phone such as Android Auto and Bluetooth connections as well as very low in-call ear and speaker volume to name a few. Battery life seems much better as well. I'm guess I was dealing with a subpar device much longer than I thought.
Hopefully this NEW replacement will get the job done for quite a while. I've never had a phone failure like this before!

Girard Gibbs is p.o.'ed because they won't recover attorney's fees, or not like the third they'd get from a nice judgement. Big win for LG.

Semianonymous

How many times has this happened to LG? I remember there being a Class action for the G2X being such a pile of garbage. You'd think they'd learn.

professorpasta

I just sent back a G4 with a bootloop. They fixed it without hesitation. Also have a G2X: Worst. Phone. Ever.

Max Johnson

Worst phone I ever used was the Galaxy S4, followed by the S5. Touchwiz bloats made those phone nearly unusable.

Enrico Sacchetti

Who is eligible to join this lawsuit? Is US Citizenship required?

Ryne Hager

That is a good question. I am not sure if you only need to be a resident. Perhaps contact the attorneys involved.

Steve Louzon

My sons phone died a month ago.
Read here that LG was going to fix them.
Sent them the phone and they repaired it.
The work order says they replaced the motherboard.
I'm happy. The phone was over 2 years old.

Kujo

yup 100% garbage phone, 100% trash company

Alan Mackenzie

Well I'm not computer savvy I'm probably not in the right spot here but when did they announce that they were filing a lawsuit against the v20 that I was you produces I've had mine for over a year had multiple problems with it and was never told this by Verizon or anybody I obviously purchase the phone through Verizon never heard anything however and just recently gave the phone to AT&T due to frustration with the multiple failures and now I'm even more disappointed as AT&T ain't so hot somebody can let me know if there's anything I can do at this point you can reach me at [email protected]. I do something was off the first one I got when they very first came out turn totally gray on the back side overheating